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24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 3.4 Release:</font></h2>
25: <p>
26: Released Nov 1, 2003<br>
27: Copyright 1997-2003, Theo de Raadt.<br>
28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 0-9731791-2-0</font>
29: <p>
30:
31: <a href="#new">What's New</a><br>
32: <a href="#install">How to install</a><br>
33: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
34: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
35:
36: <p>
37: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
38: To get the files for this release:
39: <ul>
40: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
41: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
1.8 david 42: a list of mirror machines.
1.1 david 43: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/3.4/</font> directory on
1.8 david 44: one of the mirror sites.
1.1 david 45: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
46: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata.html">The 3.4 Errata page</a> for a list
1.8 david 47: of bugs and workarounds.
1.1 david 48: <li>See a <a href="plus.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
1.8 david 49: 3.3 and 3.4 releases.
1.1 david 50: </ul>
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53:
54: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
55: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
56: XF4.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
57: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
58: the CDROM because of lack of space.
59: <p>
60:
61: <a name="new"></a>
62: <hr>
63: <p>
64: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
65: <p>
66: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 3.4.
67: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus.html">changelog</a> leading
68: to 3.4.
69: <p>
70:
71: <ul>
72:
1.23 tedu 73: <li>The i386 architecture has been switched to the ELF executable format.
1.1 david 74: <p>
75:
1.6 tedu 76: <li>Further W^X improvements, including support for the i386 architecture.
77: Native i386 binaries have their executable segments rearranged to support
1.14 deraadt 78: isolating code from data, and the cpu CS limit is used to impose a best
79: effort limit on code execution.
1.1 david 80: <p>
81:
1.20 deraadt 82: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so">ld.so(1)</a>
83: on ELF platforms now loads libraries in a random order for
1.14 deraadt 84: greater resistance to attacks. The i386 architecture also maps libraries
85: somewhat randomized addresses. Together with W^X and ProPolice, these
86: changes increase the difficulty of successfully exploiting an application
87: error, such as a buffer overflow.
1.1 david 88: <p>
89:
90: <li>A static bounds checker has been added to the compiler to perform basic
1.4 avsm 91: checks on functions which accept buffers and sizes. The checker aims to
1.8 david 92: find common mistakes in the use of library functions such as
1.4 avsm 93: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strlcpy">strlcpy(3)</a>
94: or <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sscanf">sscanf(3)</a>
95: without emitting any false positives. Running it over the source and ports
96: trees revealed over a hundred real bugs, which were fixed and submitted back
97: to the original authors where possible.
1.1 david 98: <p>
99:
1.20 deraadt 100: <li>Privilege separation has been implemented for the
101: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogd">syslogd(8)</a>
1.21 david 102: daemon, making it much more robust against future errors. The child which
103: listens to network traffic now runs as a normal user and chroots itself,
104: while the parent process tracks the state of the child and performs
105: privileged operations on its behalf.
1.1 david 106: <p>
107:
108: <li>Many unsafe string functions have been removed from the kernel and userland
1.6 tedu 109: utilities. This audit is one of the most comprehensive OpenBSD has ever
110: done, with thousands of occurrences of
1.12 deraadt 111: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strcpy">strcpy(3)</a>,
112: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strcat">strcat(3)</a>,
113: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sprintf">sprintf(3)</a>,
1.8 david 114: and
1.12 deraadt 115: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vsprintf">vsprintf(3)</a>
1.4 avsm 116: being replaced with safer, bounded alternatives such as
1.12 deraadt 117: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strlcpy">strlcpy(3)</a>,
118: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strlcat">strlcat(3)</a>,
119: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=snprintf">snprintf(3)</a>,
120: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vsnprintf">vsnprintf(3)</a>,
121: and
122: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=asprintf">asprintf(3)</a>.
1.1 david 123: <p>
124:
1.13 david 125: <li><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/">
126: ProPolice</a> stack protection has been enabled in the kernel as well.
1.1 david 127: <p>
128:
1.18 avsm 129: <li>Privilege separation has been implemented in the X server. The privileged
1.15 david 130: child process is responsible for the operations that can't be done after the
131: main process has switched to a non-privileged user. This greatly reduces the
132: potential damage that could be caused by malicious X clients, in case of
133: bugs in the X server.
134: <p>
135:
1.20 deraadt 136: <li>Emulation support for binary compatibility is now controlled via
1.24 avsm 137: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8">sysctl(8)</a>.
1.19 tedu 138: Emulation is now disabled by default to limit exposure to malicious
139: binaries, and can be enabled in
140: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl.conf">
141: sysctl.conf(5)</a>.
1.16 tedu 142: <p>
143:
1.1 david 144: <li>Manual pages have been greatly cleaned up and improved.
145: <p>
146:
1.8 david 147: <li>The ports tree now supports building programs under
148: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace">
149: systrace(1)</a>, preventing the possibility of applications harming the
150: system at compile-time via trojaned configuration scripts or otherwise.
1.1 david 151: <p>
152:
1.25 avsm 153: <li>Symbol caching in
154: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so">ld.so(1)</a>
155: reduces the startup time of large applications.
1.23 tedu 156: <p>
157:
1.25 avsm 158: <li>More license fixes, including the removal of the advertising clause
1.6 tedu 159: for large parts of the source tree.
160: <p>
161:
1.20 deraadt 162: <li>Replacement of GNU
1.22 deraadt 163: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=diff">diff(1)</a>,
164: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=diff3">diff3(1)</a>,
165: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=grep">grep(1)</a>,
166: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=egrep">egrep(1)</a>,
167: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fgrep">fgrep(1)</a>,
168: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zgrep">zgrep(1)</a>,
169: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zegrep">zegrep(1)</a>,
170: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zfgrep">zfgrep(1)</a>,
171: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gzip">gzip(1)</a>,
172: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zcat">zcat(1)</a>,
173: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gunzip">gunzip(1)</a>,
174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gzcat">gzcat(1)</a>,
175: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zcmp">zcmp(1)</a>,
176: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zmore">zmore(1)</a>,
177: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zdiff">zdiff(1)</a>,
178: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zforce">zforce(1)</a>,
179: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gzexe">gzexe(1)</a>,
1.20 deraadt 180: and
1.22 deraadt 181: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=znew">znew(1)</a>
1.20 deraadt 182: commands with BSD licensed equivalents.
183: <p>
184:
185: <li>Addition of read-only support for
186: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs">NTFS</a>
187: file systems.
188: <p>
189:
190: <li>Reliability improvements to layered file systems, enabling
191: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_null">NULLFS</a>
192: to work again.
1.6 tedu 193: <p>
194:
1.26 ! deraadt 195: <li>Improvements to
! 196: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=compat_linux">linux emulation</a>
! 197: enabling more applications to run.
1.6 tedu 198: <p>
199:
1.16 tedu 200: <li>Significant improvements to the pthread library.
201: <p>
202:
1.20 deraadt 203: <li>Replace many static fd_set uses, to instead use
204: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=poll">poll(2)</a>
205: or dynamic allocation.
1.16 tedu 206: <p>
207:
1.13 david 208: <li>Legacy KerberosIV support has been removed, and the remaining KerberosV
209: codebase has been restructured for easier management.
1.3 jason 210: <p>
211:
1.13 david 212: <li>Over 2400 ports, 2200 pre-built packages.
1.1 david 213: <p>
214:
215: <li>A large number of bug fixes, changes, and optimizations to our packet filter
1.20 deraadt 216: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>
1.1 david 217: including:
218: <ul>
1.20 deraadt 219: <li>packet tagging (e.g. filter on tags added by bridge based on MAC address)
1.10 frantzen 220: <li>stateful TCP normalization (prevent uptime calculation and NAT detection)
1.9 dhartmei 221: <li>passive OS detection (filter or redirect connections based on source OS)
222: <li>SYN proxy (protect servers against SYN flood attacks)
223: <li>adaptive state timeouts (prevent state table overflows under attack)
1.1 david 224: </ul>
225: <p>
226:
1.16 tedu 227: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
228: <ul>
229: <li>Kauai ATA controllers (Apple ATA100 wdc) enabling support for
230: Powerbook 12" and 17" models.
231: <li>Support for controlling LongRun registers on Transmeta CPUs.
1.19 tedu 232: <li>Many fixes to
233: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac">aac(4)</a>,
234: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahc">ahc(4)</a>,
235: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=osiop">osiop(4)</a>,
236: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=siop">siop(4)</a>
237: SCSI drivers.
238: <li>New
239: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=it">it(4)</a>,
240: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lm">lm(4)</a>,
241: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=viaenv">viaenv(4)</a>
242: hardware monitor drivers.
243: <li>New
244: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=safe">safe(4)</a>
245: driver for SafeNet crypto acclerators.
246: <li>New
247: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mtd">mtd(4)</a>
248: driver for Myson Technologies network cards.
249: <li>More ethernet cards supported by
250: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fxp">fxp(4)</a>
1.21 david 251: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc&sektion=4">dc(4)</a>.
1.19 tedu 252: <li>Massive overhaul and sync with NetBSD of the entire
1.21 david 253: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4">usb(4)</a>
1.19 tedu 254: support system.
255: <li>New and better support for various controllers in
256: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide">pciide(4)</a>,
257: including experimental support for Serial ATA.
1.16 tedu 258: </ul>
259: <p>
260:
1.1 david 261: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
262: <ul>
1.7 david 263: <li>XFree86 4.3.0 (+ patches, and i386 contains 3.3.X servers also, thus
264: providing support for all chipsets)
1.1 david 265: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches)
266: <li>Perl 5.8.0 (+ patches)
267: <li>Apache 1.3.28, mod_ssl 2.8.15, DSO support (+ patches)
268: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.7beta3 (+ patches)
269: <li>Groff 1.15
270: <li>Sendmail 8.12.9
271: <li>Bind 9.2.2 (+ patches)
1.5 avsm 272: <li>Lynx 2.8.4rel.1 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
1.1 david 273: <li>Sudo 1.6.7p5
274: <li>Ncurses 5.2
275: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
276: <li>Heimdal 0.6rc1 (+ patches)
277: <li>Arla-current
1.17 david 278: <li>OpenSSH 3.7 (now with GSSAPI support)
1.1 david 279: </ul>
280: <p>
281:
282: <p>
283: <li>Many improvements for security and reliability (look for the red
284: print in the <a href="plus.html">complete changelog</a>).
285: <p>
286: <li> and much more.
287:
288: </ul>
289:
290: <a name="install"></a>
291: <hr>
292: <p>
293: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
294: <p>
295: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
296: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
297: form of install. The instructions for doing an ftp (or other style
298: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
299: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
300: purchased a CDROM instead.
301: <p>
302:
303: <hr>
304: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or ftp mirror for
305: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 3.4 on your machine:
306: <p>
307: <ul>
1.8 david 308: <li>CD1:3.4/i386/INSTALL.i386
1.1 david 309: <p>
1.8 david 310: <li>CD2:3.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
311: <li>CD2:3.4/vax/INSTALL.vax
1.1 david 312: <p>
1.8 david 313: <li>CD3:3.4/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
314: <li>CD3:3.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
1.1 david 315: <p>
1.8 david 316: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
317: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
318: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
319: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
320: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
1.1 david 321: </ul>
322: <hr>
323:
324: <p>
325: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
326: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
327: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
328: <p>
329:
330: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
331: <ul>
332: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
333: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
334: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
335: <i>CD1:3.4/i386/floppy34.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
336:
337: <p>
338: Use <i>CD1:3.4/i386/floppyB34.fs</i> instead for greater scsi controller
339: support, or <i>CD1:3.4/i386/floppyC34.fs</i> for better laptop support.
340:
341: <p>
1.2 david 342: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
343: read the included INSTALL.i386 document.
1.1 david 344:
345: <p>
346: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
1.2 david 347: at <i>CD:/3.4/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
348: use the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=
349: dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a> utility. The following is an example usage of
350: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)
351: </a>, where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
352: "rfd0a".
1.1 david 353:
354: <ul><pre>
355: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
356: </pre></ul>
357:
358: <p>
1.2 david 359: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
360: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
361: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
362: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>.
1.1 david 363: </ul>
364:
365: <p>
366: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
367: <ul>
368: Put the CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
369: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
370:
371: <p>
372: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
373: /3.4/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
374: </ul>
375:
376: <p>
377: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
378: <ul>
379: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
380: </ul>
381:
382: <p>
383: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
384: <ul>
1.2 david 385: The 3.4 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD3. To boot off of this CD you
386: can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your
387: ROM.
1.1 david 388:
389: <ul><pre>
1.8 david 390: > <strong>boot cdrom 3.4/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
1.1 david 391: or
1.8 david 392: > <strong>boot sd(0,6,0)3.4/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
1.1 david 393: </pre></ul>
394:
395: <p>
396: If your sparc does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
1.2 david 397: To do so you need to write "CD3:3.4/sparc/floppy34.fs" to a floppy.
398: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>. To boot from
399: the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of
400: your ROM.
1.1 david 401:
402: <ul><pre>
1.8 david 403: > <strong>boot floppy</strong>
1.1 david 404: or
1.8 david 405: > <strong>boot fd()</strong>
1.1 david 406: </pre></ul>
407:
408: <p>
1.2 david 409: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
410: will most likely fail.
1.1 david 411:
412: <p>
413: If your sparc doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
414: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
415: INSTALL.sparc file.
416: </ul>
417:
418: <p>
419: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
420: <ul>
421: Put the CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
422:
423: <p>
424: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
425: <i>CD3:3.4/sparc64/floppy34.fs</i> to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
426: floppy</i>.<br>
1.2 david 427: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
428: will most likely fail.
1.1 david 429:
430: <p>
431: You can also write <i>CD3:3.4/sparc64/miniroot34.fs</i> to the swap partition on
432: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
433:
434: <p>
435: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64
436: </ul>
437:
438: <p>
439: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
440: <ul>
441: <p>Write <i>FTP:3.4/alpha/floppy34.fs</i> or
442: <i>FTP:3.4/alpha/floppyB34.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
443: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
444:
445: <p>
1.2 david 446: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
447: will most likely fail.
1.1 david 448:
449: </ul>
450:
451: <p>
452: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
453: <ul>
454: <p>
455: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
456: </ul>
457:
458: <p>
459: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
460: <ul>
461: <p>
462: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
463: <a href="hppa.html#netboot">hppa platform page</a>.
464: </ul>
465:
466: <p>
467: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mac68k:</font></h3>
468: <ul>
469: <p>
470: Boot MacOS as normal and partition your disk with the appropriate A/UX
471: configurations. Then, extract the Macside utilities from
472: <i>FTP:3.4/mac68k/utils</i> onto your hard disk. Run Mkfs to create your
473: filesystems on the A/UX partitions you just made. Then, use the
474: "BSD/Mac68k Installer" to copy all the sets in <i>FTP:3.4/mac68k/</i> onto your
475: partitions. Finally, you will be ready to configure the "BSD/Mac68k
476: Booter" with the location of your kernel and boot the system.
477: </ul>
478:
479: <p>
480: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
481: <ul>
482: <p>
483: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
484: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
485: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
486: for more details.
487: </ul>
488:
489: <p>
490: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
491: <ul>
492: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
493: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
494: in a separate archive. To extract:
495: <p>
496: <ul><pre>
497: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
498: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
499: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
500: </pre></ul>
501: <p>
502: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
503: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
504: To extract:
505: <p>
506: <ul><pre>
507: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
508: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
509: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
510: </pre></ul>
511: <p>
512: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
513: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
514: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
515: Using these files
516: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
517: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
518: <p>
519: </ul>
520: <a name="ports"></a>
521: <hr>
522: <p>
523: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
524: <p>
525: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
526: <p>
527: <ul><pre>
528: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
529: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
530: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
531: </pre></ul>
532: <p>
533: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
534: read the <a href="ports.html">ports</a> page
535: if you know nothing about ports
536: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
537: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
538: OpenBSD ports system.
539: <p>
540: Certainly, the OpenBSD ports system is not complete. It is doubtful it
541: will ever be. However, it is growing very fast and getting more stable.
542: Almost all ports provided with this release should build without problems
543: on most architectures (over 2400 packages build on i386, for instance).
544: <p>
545: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
546: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">
547: cvs(1)</a> if
548: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
549: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
550: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
551: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
552: like:
553: <p>
554: <ul><pre>
555: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvsserver.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_3_4</strong>
556: </pre></ul>
557: <p>
558: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
559: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
560: server.]
561: <p>
562: Note that most ports are available as packages through ftp. Updated
563: packages for the 3.4 release will be made available if problems arise.
564: <p>
565: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
566: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
567: place to know.
568: <p>
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